Lesson 3: Solutions to the Depression
Handout 2

Great Depression Chart

Date

Government

Nonprofits

1929
   
1930
  • Pres. Hoover asks foundations for report on how to handle social challenges of the Depression
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation establishedˇ Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation foundedˇ Andrew W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust founded
1931
  • Bread lines and charity drives in cities
  • Red Cross distributes food and clothing
1932
  • Philadelphia provides relief payments to citizens
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation created
  • Emergency Relief Act passed
  • W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation created
1933
  • FDRoosevelt inaugurated as president, declares a bank holiday
  • Emergency Banking Relief Act passed
  • Civilian Conservation Corps created
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act pays farmers not to grow crops
  • Federal Emergency Relief Administration created
  • Farm Relief Act passed
  • Tennessee Valley Authority created
  • Federal Securities Act passed
  • Farm Credit Act passed
  • Glass-Steagall Act creates Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Home Owners Refinancing Act passed
  • National Industrial Recovery Act passed
  • Civil Works Administration created
  • Recreation leaders are publicly funded
 
1934
  • Securities Exchange Commission established
  • Federal Communications Commission created
  • Taylor Grazing Act passed
  • Commodity Credit Corporation created
  • Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act passed
  • Federal Surplus Relief Corporation created
 
1935
  • Revenue Act allows corporations to take tax deductions on donations
  • Works Progress Administration created
  • National Youth Administration created
  • Farm Credit Act passed
  • National Labor Relations Act passed
  • Social Security Act passed
  • Wealth Tax Act passed
  • Federal Power Act passed
  • Rural Electrification Administration established
  • Soil Conservation Act passed
 
1936
  • Rural Electrification Act passed
  • Ford Foundation created
  • Rockefeller Foundation efforts result in yellow fever vaccine
  • New Brunswick Foundation established (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
1937
  • Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act passed
  • U.S. Housing Authority created
  • Houston Endowment created
  • Lilly Endowment created
  • Charles Hayden Foundation founded
  • El Pomar Foundation founded
  • Cub Scouts attempts to decrease juvenile delinquency
1938
  • Fair Labor Standard Act passed
  • Food, Drug, Cosmetic Act passed
  • Olin Foundation founded
  • Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation founded
1939
  • U.S. economy improves due to military contracts
  • Crop insurance program initiated
  • Goodwill Industries collects used clothing and goods
  • Little League works to decrease juvenile delinquency